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Quotations: Animal rights Human rights The Environment Motivational/Inspirational
"As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.”
Pythagoras
Pythagoras known as "the father of numbers,"(582 BC - 496 BC), was a Greek mathematician and philosopher, indeed he was the first man to call himself a philosopher, or lover of wisdom. He however is known best for the Pythagorean Theorem. He was born on the Island of Samos, the Greek Island in the eastern Aegean, from where he travelled to Mesopotamia and Egypt, here he commenced his basic studies and eventually founded his first school. He founded his second school in Croton in Southern Italy having moved to avoid political unrest. The school was open to all students; there was no discrimination of race, gender, financial or social standing. The doctrines of these schools, which included strict rules of conduct, have had a profound effect on philosophy down through the ages to present times. Pythagoras is widely regarded as the founder of modern mathematics, musical theory, philosophy and the science of health (hygiene). Pythagoras and his students believed that everything was related to mathematics and that numbers were the ultimate reality and through mathematics everything could be predicted and measured in rhythmic patterns or cycles.
Read more includes more quotations concerning animals rights:
http://thinkdifferentlyaboutsheep.weebly.com/animal-rights-a-history-pythagoras.html
Pythagoras
Pythagoras known as "the father of numbers,"(582 BC - 496 BC), was a Greek mathematician and philosopher, indeed he was the first man to call himself a philosopher, or lover of wisdom. He however is known best for the Pythagorean Theorem. He was born on the Island of Samos, the Greek Island in the eastern Aegean, from where he travelled to Mesopotamia and Egypt, here he commenced his basic studies and eventually founded his first school. He founded his second school in Croton in Southern Italy having moved to avoid political unrest. The school was open to all students; there was no discrimination of race, gender, financial or social standing. The doctrines of these schools, which included strict rules of conduct, have had a profound effect on philosophy down through the ages to present times. Pythagoras is widely regarded as the founder of modern mathematics, musical theory, philosophy and the science of health (hygiene). Pythagoras and his students believed that everything was related to mathematics and that numbers were the ultimate reality and through mathematics everything could be predicted and measured in rhythmic patterns or cycles.
Read more includes more quotations concerning animals rights:
http://thinkdifferentlyaboutsheep.weebly.com/animal-rights-a-history-pythagoras.html
“Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything that the Third Reich was capable of, indeed dwarfs it, in that ours is an enterprise without end, self-regenerating, bringing rabbits, rats, poultry, livestock ceaselessly into the world for the purpose of killing them.”
J.M. Coetzee, The Lives of Animals
John Maxwell Coetzee is a South African novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He relocated to Australia in 2002 and lives in Adelaide. He became an Australian citizen in 2006
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"It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American politician, diplomat and activist. She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, having held the post from March 1933 to April 1945 during her ...
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"I personally chose to go vegan because I educated myself on factory farming and cruelty to animals, and I suddenly realized that what was on my plate were living things, with feelings. And I just couldn't disconnect myself from it any longer. I read books like 'Diet for a New America' and saw documentaries like 'Earthlings' and 'Meet your Meat,' and it became an easy choice for me."
Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen Lee DeGeneres is an American comedian, television host, actress, writer, producer, and LGBT activist. DeGeneres starred in the popular sitcom Ellen from 1994 to 1998 and has hosted her syndicated TV talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, since 2003.
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Why Ellen Went Vegan
www.peta.org/blog/ellen-went-vegan/
“By eating meat we share the responsibility of climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and water. The simple act of becoming a vegetarian will make a difference in the health of our planet.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Thích Nhất Hạnh is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist.
"Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh is a global spiritual leader, poet and peace activist, revered around the world for his powerful teachings and bestselling writings on mindfulness and peace. He is the man Martin Luther King called “An Apostle of peace and nonviolence.” His key teaching is that, through mindfulness, we can learn to live happily in the present moment—the only way to truly develop peace, both in one’s self and in the world"
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Pigs are sentient beings and are more intelligent than your dog.
Sentient Animals: Pigs
Pigs, along with chimps, dolphins and elephants, are in the top five most intelligent animals, according to experts.
Fact. Pigs are more intelligent than either your cat or dog, they are placed as the fourth most intelligent creature on earth. Yet few people know very much about these much maligned and misunderstood animals.
Pigs, along with chimps, dolphins and elephants, are in the top five most intelligent animals, according to experts.
Fact. Pigs are more intelligent than either your cat or dog, they are placed as the fourth most intelligent creature on earth. Yet few people know very much about these much maligned and misunderstood animals.
Read more:
https://rantingsfromavirtualsoapbox.wordpress.com/2017/07/07/sentient-animals-pigs/
Pigs are sentient beings and are more intelligent than your dog.
Sentient Animals: Pigs
Pigs, along with chimps, dolphins and elephants, are in the top five most intelligent animals, according to experts.
Fact. Pigs are more intelligent than either your cat or dog, they are placed as the fourth most intelligent creature on earth. Yet few people know very much about these much maligned and misunderstood animals.
Pigs, along with chimps, dolphins and elephants, are in the top five most intelligent animals, according to experts.
Fact. Pigs are more intelligent than either your cat or dog, they are placed as the fourth most intelligent creature on earth. Yet few people know very much about these much maligned and misunderstood animals.
Read more:
https://rantingsfromavirtualsoapbox.wordpress.com/2017/07/07/sentient-animals-pigs/
"We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites.
How can we hope in this world to attain the PEACE we say we are so anxious for."
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and political activist who held both Irish and British citizenship.
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Read the fill poem
Living Graves
We are the living graves of murdered beasts,
Slaughtered to satisfy our appetites.
We never pause to wonder at our feasts,
If animals, like men, can possibly have rights.
We pray on Sundays that we may have light,
To guide our footsteps on the path we tread.
We’re sick of War, we do not want to fight –
The thought of it now fills our hearts with dread,
And yet – we gorge ourselves upon the dead.
Like carrion crows, we live and feed on meat,
Regardless of the suffering and pain
We cause by doing so, if thus we treat
Defenseless animals for sport or gain,
How can we hope in this world to attain
The PEACE we say we are so anxious for.
We pray for it, o’er hecatombs of slain,
To God, while outraging the moral law.
Thus cruelty begets its offspring – WAR
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw Poem, “We Are The Living Graves of Murdered Beasts
http://www.humanedecisions.com/george-bernard-shaw-poem-we-are-the-living-graves-of-murdered-beasts/
“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
Jane Goodall
Dame Jane Morris Goodall DBE (/ˈɡʊdˌɔːl/; born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall, 3 April 1934),[2] formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is a British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace.[3] Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her over 55-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees since she first went to Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania in 1960.[4] She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and the Roots & Shoots programme, and she has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues. She has served on the board of the Nonhuman Rights Project since its founding in 1996.[5][6]
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The Jane Goodall Institute UK
Founded by renowned ethologist and conservationist Jane Goodall, the Jane Goodall Institute is a global organisation that empowers people to make a difference for all living things.
The Jane Goodall Institute's projects in Africa are groundbreaking and globally renowned for effectively helping local people take charge of the conservation and development of their own communities, and also help the chimpanzees who they live alongside.
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http://www.janegoodall.org.uk/
"People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines . . . It appears to me, besides, that [such people] can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different Voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel . "
Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet, known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church and Christianity ..
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